Ditch Microsoft - Alternative Software thread.

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fortytwo said:


next time you should stick with the phrase "the abovementioned entity" or something. 8)
Being gender specific is a BAD thing. shame on you jf.
BAD JF.

Okay I SCOlded JF already .... let the matter rest

hm well... you had to chIBMe in. :D Let's just watch our ascOsiations, shall we?
 

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Long time no updates liao. Got one more here...
I've been using this program on my Win98 box called 7Zip. Replaces Winzip=p
 

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Come recommended by LinuxFormat magazine issue 50, February 2004 and by myself.

snarf (Commandline URL grabber with tonnes of interesting abilities)

HTTrack (A proggie that is a website downloader cum offline browser)

Junkie (GUI FTP client check screenshot in the above link)

JaysIPtablesFirewall FIAF (An iptables firewall for Linux)

JuK (A Jukebox & music manager for the KDE desktop)

Kbear gFTP

IglooFTP

AxY FTP (with a GTK+ GUI)

DPS-FTP

Xftp

Iftp (Sophisticated commandline FTP client)

YAFC (Yet Another FTP Client)

Madman (Digital music manager)

Ogle (DVD player)

QtVision (TV watching proggie)

AmaroK (media player)

Gmerlin (Audio/video player)

XANIM (Versatile multi-format audio, animation & video player)

XMPS (X-Windows GTK-based media player)

GRIP (CD ripper/encoder cum CD player)

UMIX (Sound card volumes adjuster)

Danpei (GTK+ based image viewer)

ImageMagick (An automated & interactive image manipulator)

YAALA (General log viewer with avery detailed report)

LSHW (Provide detailed hardware configuration information)

Seahorse (Gnome frontend for GnuPG)

GPA (GTK GUI to GnuPG)

flphoto (A simple image management, viewing & printing software)

PhotoGroup (GNOME image organizer)

Ethereal (Network analysis tool)

Etherape (REAL-time network activity graphs)

ROX-Filer (Drag-N-Drop file manager)

Environ (Unix environment variables manipulator)

http://www.beonex.com/communicator/version/0.9/install/unix/
Beonex Communicator (ALL-in-one suite that includes a web browser + email+ news reader + web page editor)

CD/DVD-Writing:
Eroaster

Gtoaster

Gcombust

k3b

Xcdroast

WebCDwriter (Network CD/DVD writing application)


http://gnometoaster.rulez.org/

http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust



Some more apps...have tried to provide some background info e.g. features on each of them BUT not all...go search for them at http://www.google.com/linux

Download accelerators/managers:

D4x

Prozilla GUI

Kget

http://www.lintux.cx/axel.html

Axel
A light Unix download accelerator

Aria

KMAGO

http://downman.sourceforge.net
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28114
Download Manager suite

* downmand: a daemon that takes care of downloading files

* downman: a command line client to downmand to add files for download

* downman-gmonitor: a little window where you can drop urls

* gdownman: (aka gnome download manager), a gui client to control downloads

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/elysium/
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/emphetamine/emphetamine-0.99.6.tar.gz?download
Emphetamine
A download manager for GNOME using gnome-vfs. It supports downloading via http, ftp, and smb. Other protocol modules can easily be added.


http://gcompressor.sourceforge.net/
gcompressor - gui interface of compression decompression tools. must be the best gcompressor is desined for the gtk+-2 & gnome-2 platform


Additional CD/DVD burning apps/ISO files manipulators:
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~mittals/cdrecorder
CDrecorder

CDrecorder is a gui for cdrecord and mkisofs built using gtk (primarily). What can it do? --------------- - Copy a directory on to a CD (CDR/CDRW) - Burn an iso image file on to a CD - Make an iso image of a directory (for repeated burning)


http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10176
KIso
KIso is a fronted for KDE to make it as easy as possible to create manipulate and extract CD Image files.


Files Splitter:
http://ranty.pantax.net/~rrey/openhacha/openhacha-0.5.tar.bz2

OpenHacha - OpenHacha is a "free as in freedom" implementation for GNU/Linux of the propietary-and-only-for-MS-Windows program Hacha.With OpenHacha you can split huge files into small chunks and join the chunks then without problems (like cat/split commands).


GUI BitTorrent Client:
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

Azureus
A Java-based BitTorrent client. Azureus offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. Azureus now features an embedded tracker easily set up and ready to use.


http://www.kde-apps.org/content/download.php?content=10509&id=1
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10509
kfile_torrent

KFilePlugin
Description:
This is a KFilePlugin to allow the display of meta information of the .torrent files used by the BitTorrent distributed download program.

See also: http://www.bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/


Website downloaders:
Getleft
http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/getleft/english/download.html

Pavuk

Khttrack
http://www.nongnu.org/khttrack/index.html
http://www.nongnu.org/khttrack/screenshots.html

Khttrack is a easy-to-use offline browser utility with Kde Wizard Interface.


It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer.

Hope this is useful.

:cool:
 

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And if all the preceding posts, freshmeat.net etc still don't help, this is your last hope before virtual machines, dual++ booting and self-coding.

I run the following currently pretty comfortably.

Acrobat Reader 5.5 (the linux version is ugly)
Photoshop 7 (i love gimp but hey, there's always space for photoshop)
ACDSee 3.1 (gqview doesnt animate .gif)
Filezilla (it's installed in my REAL windows and not in wine but it still runs perfectly so theres no need for gftp)

And out of curiousity, has anyone got Winamp5 fully working? The Media Library doesnt work in wine. And when I use wine to run it off my XP installation, the Media Library works but Winamp doesnt play. I will probably try to get the second method working.
 

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Thrrp said:
Have been trying out nVu. Quite happy with it so far. Wondering whether they will charge for it after the beta versions.

http://www.nvu.com/

I've used NVU along with the gamut of commercial and OS web dev software. Whichever one I try, I find that the default settings don't necessarily promote good web dev habits. Things like creating HTML tags in upper case, using "Transitional" DOCTYPEs and <b> instead of <strong>. If using OpenSource means you care about software quality to a certain extent, make sure you extend that care to the webpages you create (if you're a web developer of course).

Personally, I've been using a mix of Quanta, KDevelop (for Ruby projects) and VIM (quick!) :)
 

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FireHobbit said:
Windows Media Player can be sub with Itunes or K-lite Codec Pack :s12: :s12: :s12:
I would replace WMP with Media Player Classic or VideoLAN, both are open source and both are great media players, if not the best.
 
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etegration said:
I got this idea after reading this month's copy of PCAuthority Australia, having the same cover title. "Ditch Microsoft".

This thread attempts to show you alternative and tell you on the common pit falls you may have to "alternative software". it should jump start some who are starting out on Linux and this open source evolution on what alternative to use/ look for once their flavour of Linux is installed.

It'll be nice if anyone who has used the following post some feedback like what is compatible/good/nice and what to keep away from. I'll try updating this thread as and when new info is added.

I'll group them up nicely when the thread grows. Thanks for your input.

Update: Grouped them, hope it's good enough, feedback by posting here if you think some programs should be group otherwise. Thanks

Major Groups:
1.0 OSes Alternatives:
2.0 MS Office Alternatives
3.0 Multimedia (MP3 Player, Divx/mpg etcetc players)
4.0 Internet Utilities Alternatives:
4.1 FTP Alternatives
4.2 SSH
4.3 Broswers Alternatives Internet Explorer
4.4 Web Server Software Alternatives
4.5 E-mail client Alternatives
4.6 P2P Softwares Alternatives
5.0 Accessories Alternatives
6.0 Graphics Editing Alternatives
7.0. CD Creation Alternatives
8.0 Windows/ Luna Envirnoment Alternatives
9.0 Scripting/ Programming Language Alternatives
10.0 Database Alternatives
11.0 Visio Vs Dia
12.0 Windows Update Alternatives
13.0 Microsoft Project Vs ??? (contributed by Makando)
14.0 People Alternatives, who you wanna see lead the OS Nations?



1.0 OSes Alternatives:

Windows
Linux! (of course)

Redhat Link to official website
Mandrake Link to official website


2.0 MS Office Alternatives

Openoffice.org - Link to official Website
KOffice (contributed by tangent314)
Abiword (contributed by tangent314)


3.0 Multimedia (MP3 Player, Divx/mpg etcetc players)
Windows Media Player
mplayer (Linux) (contributed by tangent314)

WinDVD/PowerDVD
Xine - http://xinehq.de (contributed by hetfield)

Winamp
XMMS Link to official website

4.0 Internet Utilities Alternatives:

ICQ
Licq - Link to official website
Giam - Link to official website

More on
this thread.

4.1 FTP Alternatives

FTP
proFTPd - Link to official website

gFTP - http://gftp.seul.org/ (contributed by pclinux)

4.2 SSH
Putty - Link to official website


4.3 Broswers Alternatives Internet Explorer

Opera Link to official website
Konqueror (KDE) (contributed by tangent314)
Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird (contributed by tangent314)

4.4 Web Server Software Alternatives

Internet Information Services
Apache - Link to official website

4.5 E-mail client Alternatives

Evolution - Link to official website
Mozilla Mail (contributed by tangent314)
Mozilla Thunderbird (contributed by tangent314)

4.6 P2P Softwares Alternatives
Overnet http://www.overnet.com/download.html (contributed by jiehao85)


5.0 Accessories Alternatives

Notepad
Vim Link to official website
(X)Emacs Offical Website (contributed by tangent314)
Kate (KDE) (contributed by tangent314)
Pico (contributed by tangent314)
Nano (contributed by tangent314)
Joe (contributed by tangent314)


Calculator


6.0 Graphics Editing Alternatives

Photoshop Vs GIMP (contributed by Makando)
http://www.gimp.org/


7.0. CD Creation Alternatives

Nero Burning ROM
K3b - http://k3b.sourceforge.net/ (contributed by pclinux)


8.0 Windows/ Luna Envirnoment Alternatives
KDE - Link to official website
Gnome - Link to official website

9.0 Scripting/ Programming Language Alternatives
ASP

PHP - Link to official website


10.0 Database Alternatives
MySQL - http://www.mysql.com
Oracle - http://www.oracle.com


11.0 Visio Vs Dia (contributed by Makando)
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/


12.0 Windows Update ->
up2date http://rhn.redhat.com (contributed by pclinux)
red-carpet http://www.ximian.com (contributed by pclinux)

13.0 Microsoft Project Vs ??? (contributed by Makando)


14.0 People Alternatives, who you wanna see lead the OS Nations?

Bill Gates Offical Webby @ MS
Linus Torvalds - what's his webpage's URL?
Richard Stallman Link to official website



Anymore? Contribute please.
Whatever alternatives Open source offers, it pales in comparison to the paid ones.

Gimp Always loses to Photoshop.

MS office always functions better than open office.
 

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pikeplace said:
I would replace WMP with Media Player Classic or VideoLAN, both are open source and both are great media players, if not the best.
No wonder that player needs to shut down aero effects before it could work. SO it's a Open sourced freeware. No wonder.
 
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